Migration failures are rarely technology failures.

After enough projects, the pattern becomes predictable.

Incomplete environment assessment. You don’t know what you don’t know until something breaks during cutover. By then the options are limited and the pressure is high.

Unclear dependency mapping. Service A goes down. Service B stops working. Nobody documented that relationship because nobody thought to look for it during discovery.

Rushed or skipped validation. Everything looks clean at cutover. The problems surface two days later when real users hit the environment under real conditions.

Late stakeholder communication. The business finds out about the impact after it happens instead of before. At that point the conversation shifts from preparation to damage control.

Tool-first thinking. The platform gets selected before the plan exists. When the migration struggles, the tool gets blamed for a planning problem it was never designed to solve.

Every item on that list is a planning failure, not a technical one.

Migration failures are predictable. So is what prevents them.

What’s the failure pattern you’ve seen most often and how far into the project does it usually become visible?

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